Francisco Javier 
García Castilla

Francisco Javier García-Castilla, Doctor of Sociology in the Exclusion and Social Policy Program from the Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid. He has a degree in Sociology and a diploma in Social Work from the same university. University Professor in the Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Distance Education. He has been a professor in the social work diploma of the UNED and currently he is in various subjects in the degree of social work, in addition to participating as a teacher in three master's degrees related to intervention strategies with young people. He has directed more than 100 TFG, 25 TFM, and several doctoral theses in process. He has participated as a researcher in more than ten projects, four of them R + D + i, two European and in various projects of the Public Administration and social entities. He has been IP in the Evaluation Project of the Socio-educational and Pre-employment Support Program for Adolescents (ASPA) dependent on the Madrid City Council (July 2019-May 2020). He is co-director of the research group of the UNED Socio-educational Intervention in Social Contexts, and a member of OcioGune, Network of Research Excellence (RED2018-102625-T) since 2013 (https://ociogune.unirioja.es/). He has also been PI in two research projects in Educational Innovation (GID 2017-9). He has coordinated and organized several national and international congresses, being in some of them a member of the scientific committee. His publications include book chapters and impact articles (JCR, SRJ, FECYT ...) related to adolescence and youth. His topics of interest and lines of research revolve around leisure, well-being and social values, social work with people who are especially vulnerable; social intervention with young people; and adolescence and risk. He is currently Vice Dean of Students and Communication at the Faculty of Law. He held other academic positions such as Assistant Vice-Rector for University Extension, Summer Courses, Culture and Sports at UNED. He has been manager of Comunitania, International Journal of Social Work and Social Sciences (2010-2019). He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Society of the Madrid Sociology Association (AMS) since 2012, being Vice President since May 2019.